No need need to pigeonhole and padlock your uncomfortable thoughts

What we do, or tend to do, with the thoughts we have but can’t agree with? Freud didn’t merely draw our attention to such moments, however, or redescribe the provenance of our more nomadic thoughts. He invented a therapeutic method that traded in nasty turns. And the aim of this method is that people should be able to have their disagreeable reflections without feeling the need to pigeonhole and padlock them